Project description

bomshell is used to retrieve weather data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM)
public ftpsite, and display the result in the shell, where it belongs, as God intended it.
Not this silly web clownsuit bullshit the kids are all agog about.

bomshell retrieves the spatial data from the public ftp site and packs it into a local database. Tools are provided to
build and maintain the local database. Queries can be made of the database and the spatial database files. As the tool matures
the spatial database will be used to determine the product ID’s of reports the user is interested in and those specific products
downloaded from the BOM’s public ftp site.

Sub-commands’ options are also available using --help on the subcommand.

In order to know what the BOM calls a specific product you need to figure out
what the product ID is. This is available from the spatial databases. bomshell
downloads the current spatial data and packs it into a convenient local database
that can be queried for, amongst other things, product ID’s.